Right that is what i meant, sure they are in game, I could care less if i can SEE them, i WANT TO BE THEM, ok not really, i just want the ring.....and yellow.
Right that is what i meant, sure they are in game, I could care less if i can SEE them, i WANT TO BE THEM, ok not really, i just want the ring.....and yellow.
Do you have the ability to instil great fear?
Yes..............Yes i do.
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I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
It's possible the treat the GL corps like a Jedi. You have to unlock them somehow. Perhaps you keep your original character and get access to a few extra powers benefited from the ring (force field, flight if you didn't have it before, and some random attack that rotaties images...hammer, saw, etc that we've already seen.)
As for the poster talking about GL corps being self righteous police. Well, that's kinda their entire purpose. GLs are the police of the universe. Other lantern corps have other purposes, but Green is the center of all colors and used as the long arm of the lanterns. Kyle was personally one of my favorites. Every love he had was killed. He was good kid. Full of passion. Doesn't mean I didn't like Hal. I like him. He's rash, and over confident at times. Constantly peeving off Batman. Guy is full of bravado. John is the most calculated of the bunch. Do the lanterns fail at times, yes. Most of them weren't born with super powers. They have flaws. Go figure, I never liked Batman or Superman, but I love the lanterns.
I don't see GL being something that will be a Buy 2 Play class or anything like that. I think there will be a dedicated intro story that will go along with it, and it could be part of an expansion, but I don't think it will be an a la carte purchase. The Green Lantern character is too iconic to be left to only those that would pay *extra*.
I like the tone to the article and it's largely how I feel, while I can understand some may have been avid GL fans I think a case can be made that he is atleast a little more fringe than the characters who have already made it into the game. Luckily I also can have quite a bit of patience when it comes to games and such so I think it would be exciting for an expansion to launch around the time of the film as long as it was either a free add on or had enough content to justify another purchase.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.- -And on the 8th day, man created God.-
I'll have you know that I'm presently cleaning coffee from my monitor. Thank you.:)
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
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GL is awesome. The comics are some of the best ones ever made. There is going to be a GL movie released soon that's going to blow up his character and you will have a ton more GL fanbois running around next year.
I like superhero stories a lot and GL has a ton of good stories, I wouldn't say I'm a fanboi though.
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I know lore isn't the be-all and end-all but how does 'Brainiac stealing powers, Lex releasing them in the past to make new metahumans' Equate the the various corp deputising people?
Save it for an expansion, and give us OA and other space oriented stuff.
The only problem I have with adding powers after the start of the game, in this case, light power is there is typically one of two routes it can go.
1.) The Light Power is awesome and so awesome people decide to reroll to play with it. It's actually so powerful that everyone wants to use it, and it is way way overpowered to compared to the other powersets. For PvP this means that someone is going to get hosed for no other reason then the powers they picked because of their concept.
2.) The Light Power sucks, horribly. It's broken and is in effect a glowing weak punch for x2 the normal energy cost. It's so weak and pathetic that no one wants to use it. For PvP this means that someone who uses the set has a bullseye on their chest (regardless if that's their chest logo) and are going to get seriously hammered.
The big problem with adding powers, abilities, or other fighting features after a game release is not so much the set, but it's how it balances to everything else. Developers don't spend the time to rebalance ALL the powers when a new power is released. Note I said rebalance not nerf. In many cases it calls for powers to actually be strengthened to be on par with new ones. Given the time/resource requirement though, that hardly if ever happens.
For most players the idea of spending precious development time on a few powersets seems like a wonderful idea (well to many of us) but when it comes down to it, it can be hard to justify a entire issue (for lack of a better word) on just adding some new powers. This too happens in marketing.
'No it's an entire series of quests, missions, costume pieces, and lore that players can replay again and again with new experiences every single time. All of this can be yours for $9.99.' And we as players have seen it before. We more then likely will not get the work for free. Any addition to a game after release costs us as players something. I can't really blame the developers. I wish there was a better way, but it seems the only route is to say free and eat the costs.
I will be watching to see what route the powers go, for no other reason then it will help define the way things are going to be added to DCUO. Is it going to be a smooth way of adding in the new power? If it is it speaks better of adding new powers six months or a year down the line. If it's a nightmare wrapped in a headache, wrapped in a conundrum then we can pretty much assume we have what we have.
For one there is noway SOE or anyone for that matter can pull off what a power ring can really do in a video game it's literally IMPOSSIBLE!!!! so it really doesnt matter if they include the power set or power rings for players to use. just know this generic GL character's will never be able do what a GL can and should be able to do.
They should just leave GL alone, they can't even pull off Wonder Woman and Superman in the game. Wonder Woman is a fire tank and Superman is an Ice Tank? Give me a break.
The power ring use to annoy the heck out of me in the old comics. They're a little better about it now, but I thought it was pretty lame shaping the power into the form of a fork lift, or a baseball bats, or a frying pan. It was pretty dumb.
Green Lantern is a cool character and all and the ring is certainly powerful in the comics, but making such a cool character do such dumb things really just didn't sit well with me.
Making a game with Green Lanterns as a playable class would be like making Saiyans from DBZ a playable race in the dbz mmo.
Next, people will be expecting to be able to make Kryptonians, as if, get your own powers and origin.
*edited for clarity
Actually you can do just that. At character creation you can create characters inspired by heroes and villains, including Superman. It will give you a similar blue and red costume, the ability to fly, and the power set his character uses in game, like I said above he is an ice character. All ice characters are automatically tanks, as are fire. All mental and gadgets are control, all sorcery and nature are healers.
The power ring use to annoy the heck out of me in the old comics. They're a little better about it now, but I thought it was pretty lame shaping the power into the form of a fork lift, or a baseball bats, or a frying pan. It was pretty dumb.
Green Lantern is a cool character and all and the ring is certainly powerful in the comics, but making such a cool character do such dumb things really just didn't sit well with me.
What you're forgetting is the ring is an extension of its bearers personality and character ( for instance, Hal Jordan using a giant ring created hand to hold an enemy without hurting him, while Sinestro would produce a giant yellow guillotine or buzz saw). In the earliercomics, Hal Jordan was much more of a "happy-go-lucky", jokester type personality, being that he was a test pilot afterall, a "flyboy". He spent much of his time learning, and just enjoying, the rings power.
After he became disillusioned by failing to save Coast City and ended up trying to "remake" the universe when suffering from a major "god" complex and subsequently died, he was much more of a brooding serious type when he came back.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.- -And on the 8th day, man created God.-
I honestly think that you should get to level 30 first before you have the option to become a Green Lantern. Starting off as a Green Lantern defeats the purpose of being "chosen" to defend the Universe.
There are so many people that know so little about DC Universe in itself, that they should experience the storyline as it is with Batman, Superman, Wonderwoman, Flash, etc. Once they have absorbed a good deal of the background by reaching level 30, they then can do missions to assist the Green Lantern Corps and then be offered to join by an Alpha Lantern or a Lantern Recruiter.
After being offered to join the Green Lantern Corps, upon accepting the invitation, you can then experience the flight to the planet "Oa", and then experience the lore and training needed to begin to use the Green Lantern's powers. This action should also reset your Power/Skill points so that the refreshed points can be placed within the newly created Power/Skill Trees for a new Green Lantern Recruit.
After doing training and even some races and on-planet games, the Guardians can then give you missions to either fly to other destinations in the galaxy or back to earth to further assist the Green Lanterns in restoring their rings to full power.
Thats my 2 cents....
You can run, hell you can even hide....but honestly....will that do you any good?
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Yes..............Yes i do.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
Could Green Lantern be the next Jedi debacle for SOE? Or is it a Cash Shop only gravy train waiting to be sprung like Klingons and STO...
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
It's possible the treat the GL corps like a Jedi. You have to unlock them somehow. Perhaps you keep your original character and get access to a few extra powers benefited from the ring (force field, flight if you didn't have it before, and some random attack that rotaties images...hammer, saw, etc that we've already seen.)
As for the poster talking about GL corps being self righteous police. Well, that's kinda their entire purpose. GLs are the police of the universe. Other lantern corps have other purposes, but Green is the center of all colors and used as the long arm of the lanterns. Kyle was personally one of my favorites. Every love he had was killed. He was good kid. Full of passion. Doesn't mean I didn't like Hal. I like him. He's rash, and over confident at times. Constantly peeving off Batman. Guy is full of bravado. John is the most calculated of the bunch. Do the lanterns fail at times, yes. Most of them weren't born with super powers. They have flaws. Go figure, I never liked Batman or Superman, but I love the lanterns.
I don't see GL being something that will be a Buy 2 Play class or anything like that. I think there will be a dedicated intro story that will go along with it, and it could be part of an expansion, but I don't think it will be an a la carte purchase. The Green Lantern character is too iconic to be left to only those that would pay *extra*.
I like the tone to the article and it's largely how I feel, while I can understand some may have been avid GL fans I think a case can be made that he is atleast a little more fringe than the characters who have already made it into the game. Luckily I also can have quite a bit of patience when it comes to games and such so I think it would be exciting for an expansion to launch around the time of the film as long as it was either a free add on or had enough content to justify another purchase.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
In brightest day, in blackest night
No Lantern powers shall thee sight
For as is always, as feels right
SOE fucked Green Lanterns light
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
I'll have you know that I'm presently cleaning coffee from my monitor. Thank you.:)
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
Hope is not a stategy.
______________________________
"This kind of topic is like one of those little cartoon boxes held up by a stick on a string, with a piece of meat under it. In other words, bait."
GL is awesome. The comics are some of the best ones ever made. There is going to be a GL movie released soon that's going to blow up his character and you will have a ton more GL fanbois running around next year.
I like superhero stories a lot and GL has a ton of good stories, I wouldn't say I'm a fanboi though.
"I'm not cheap I'm incredibly subconsciously financially optimized"
"The worst part of censorship is ------------------"
I know lore isn't the be-all and end-all but how does 'Brainiac stealing powers, Lex releasing them in the past to make new metahumans' Equate the the various corp deputising people?
Save it for an expansion, and give us OA and other space oriented stuff.
Currently Playing: The Game
The only problem I have with adding powers after the start of the game, in this case, light power is there is typically one of two routes it can go.
1.) The Light Power is awesome and so awesome people decide to reroll to play with it. It's actually so powerful that everyone wants to use it, and it is way way overpowered to compared to the other powersets. For PvP this means that someone is going to get hosed for no other reason then the powers they picked because of their concept.
2.) The Light Power sucks, horribly. It's broken and is in effect a glowing weak punch for x2 the normal energy cost. It's so weak and pathetic that no one wants to use it. For PvP this means that someone who uses the set has a bullseye on their chest (regardless if that's their chest logo) and are going to get seriously hammered.
The big problem with adding powers, abilities, or other fighting features after a game release is not so much the set, but it's how it balances to everything else. Developers don't spend the time to rebalance ALL the powers when a new power is released. Note I said rebalance not nerf. In many cases it calls for powers to actually be strengthened to be on par with new ones. Given the time/resource requirement though, that hardly if ever happens.
For most players the idea of spending precious development time on a few powersets seems like a wonderful idea (well to many of us) but when it comes down to it, it can be hard to justify a entire issue (for lack of a better word) on just adding some new powers. This too happens in marketing.
'No it's an entire series of quests, missions, costume pieces, and lore that players can replay again and again with new experiences every single time. All of this can be yours for $9.99.' And we as players have seen it before. We more then likely will not get the work for free. Any addition to a game after release costs us as players something. I can't really blame the developers. I wish there was a better way, but it seems the only route is to say free and eat the costs.
I will be watching to see what route the powers go, for no other reason then it will help define the way things are going to be added to DCUO. Is it going to be a smooth way of adding in the new power? If it is it speaks better of adding new powers six months or a year down the line. If it's a nightmare wrapped in a headache, wrapped in a conundrum then we can pretty much assume we have what we have.
For one there is noway SOE or anyone for that matter can pull off what a power ring can really do in a video game it's literally IMPOSSIBLE!!!! so it really doesnt matter if they include the power set or power rings for players to use. just know this generic GL character's will never be able do what a GL can and should be able to do.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb....
They should just leave GL alone, they can't even pull off Wonder Woman and Superman in the game. Wonder Woman is a fire tank and Superman is an Ice Tank? Give me a break.
The power ring use to annoy the heck out of me in the old comics. They're a little better about it now, but I thought it was pretty lame shaping the power into the form of a fork lift, or a baseball bats, or a frying pan. It was pretty dumb.
Green Lantern is a cool character and all and the ring is certainly powerful in the comics, but making such a cool character do such dumb things really just didn't sit well with me.
What you're forgetting is the ring is an extension of its bearers personality and character ( for instance, Hal Jordan using a giant ring created hand to hold an enemy without hurting him, while Sinestro would produce a giant yellow guillotine or buzz saw). In the earliercomics, Hal Jordan was much more of a "happy-go-lucky", jokester type personality, being that he was a test pilot afterall, a "flyboy". He spent much of his time learning, and just enjoying, the rings power.
After he became disillusioned by failing to save Coast City and ended up trying to "remake" the universe when suffering from a major "god" complex and subsequently died, he was much more of a brooding serious type when he came back.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
I honestly think that you should get to level 30 first before you have the option to become a Green Lantern. Starting off as a Green Lantern defeats the purpose of being "chosen" to defend the Universe.
There are so many people that know so little about DC Universe in itself, that they should experience the storyline as it is with Batman, Superman, Wonderwoman, Flash, etc. Once they have absorbed a good deal of the background by reaching level 30, they then can do missions to assist the Green Lantern Corps and then be offered to join by an Alpha Lantern or a Lantern Recruiter.
After being offered to join the Green Lantern Corps, upon accepting the invitation, you can then experience the flight to the planet "Oa", and then experience the lore and training needed to begin to use the Green Lantern's powers. This action should also reset your Power/Skill points so that the refreshed points can be placed within the newly created Power/Skill Trees for a new Green Lantern Recruit.
After doing training and even some races and on-planet games, the Guardians can then give you missions to either fly to other destinations in the galaxy or back to earth to further assist the Green Lanterns in restoring their rings to full power.
Thats my 2 cents....
You can run, hell you can even hide....but honestly....will that do you any good?